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Why it’s hard for Americans to retire
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- Why it’s hard for Americans to retire
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- 2 years ago
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- There’s a reason so many of us don’t have enough retirement savings.
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Vox sat down with people in our New York City studio to talk to them about the state of their retirement savings.
By the standards of most financial experts, Americans are woefully behind on saving for retirement. The reason why is rooted in changes in policy to our retirement system with today's result being a flawed design in how people set aside money so they can one day stop working.
In this video, we interviewed four people about their level of retirement preparedness and two experts about the state of retirement readiness more broadly in the US. One culprit lies in changes to the country’s p...
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- Why is Social Security in trouble? #socialsecurity #finance #money
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- 2 years ago
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A longer version of this video is on our channel and helps explain some of the basics around how Social Security in the US is funded, why everyone keeps saying it’s “running out,” and some of the ways we’re looking to “save” it.
There’s no denying that Americans rely heavily on Social Security benefits. Estimates from the Social Security Administration found that 97% of adults over the age of 60 are either collecting or will start collecting Social Security. As of February 2023, about one in every five residents in the US collected benefits from these funds. For such a widely used program, it’s a bit surprising that people in the US know so little about how it works. To be fair, mo...
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- Is the US running out of Social Security?
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- 2 years ago
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- And how does it even work?
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There’s no denying that Americans rely heavily on Social Security benefits. Estimates from the Social Security Administration found that 97% of adults over the age of 60 are either collecting or will start collecting Social Security. As of February 2023, about one in every five residents in the US collected benefits from these funds. For such a widely used program, it’s a bit surprising that people in the US know so little about how it works. To be fair, most of the news around this program over the past decade has been about how it’s doomed in one way or another. Millennials and younger may see the money being taxed from their paychecks and believe they’ll proba...
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- Kristen Noel Crawley’s Three Ways to Find Your Niche
- Date posted
- 2 years ago
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- KNC Beauty founder Kristen Noel Crawley shares her three top strategies for solopreneurs to find their niche in a busy marketplace. For Crawley, success is not just about creating amazing products but also about contributing to the community that has supported her journey. With QuickBooks Money, she manages her business finances while staying true to her mission. QuickBooks Money makes business banking simple and allows you to earn 5.00% APY*.
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- The space race changed how Americans learn about money
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- 2 years ago
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A longer version of this video is on our channel — it dives deeper into how financial literacy has evolved from the middle of the 20th century up until today..
It’s a common refrain: school is full of useless (if interesting!) lessons… but we learn next to nothing about how to manage our finances.
It’s true that many Americans still lack basic financial knowledge, which is a contributing factor to the money challenges – high levels of debt, insufficient savings, and poor investment decisions – that a lot of us face. But it’s not necessarily true that we never learned anything: many of us sat through a few classes on money management. It just may not have been enough ...
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- Why financial literacy education in the US sucks
- Date posted
- 2 years ago
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- Blame the Space Race … (kind of).
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It’s a common refrain: school is full of useless (if interesting!) lessons… but we learn next to nothing about how to manage our finances.
It’s true that many Americans still lack basic financial knowledge, which is a contributing factor to the money challenges – high levels of debt, insufficient savings, and poor investment decisions – that a lot of us face. But it’s not necessarily true that we never learned anything: many of us sat through a few classes on money management. It just may not have been enough to stick.
In this video, we’ll take a brief look at the state of financial education in the US: past, present, and...
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- Why US elections only give you two choices
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- 2 years ago
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- We don’t like the two-party system. So why do we have it?
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America’s two-party system is widely hated. Very few Americans think the two major parties do an adequate job representing us, and most say more parties are needed. But when it comes time to vote, very few of us actually vote for third-party candidates. Often, this is explained as either a failure of will (we’d have third parties if more people would just vote for them), or a conspiracy (the political and media establishments suppress third-party candidates and ideas).
And it’s not that those things aren’t true. But there’s a much simpler explanation, and it’s the very basic rule governing almost every single one of our elections: Only one person can win. If you’re American, that probably sounds utterly reasonable: what the hell other kinds of elections even are there? But the answer is: lots. Winner-take-all ele...
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- Three Business Tips From Beauty Brand CEO Kristen Noel Crawley
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- 2 years ago
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- Kristen Noel Crawley moved to LA with a dream to create a successful makeup brand. Now Crawley’s brand KNC Beauty is featured in magazines and loved by celebrities like Kim Kardashian West. Partnering with Intuit QuickBooks, Crawley shares her top three business tips for aspiring solopreneurs. With QuickBooks Money, Crawley knows her business will thrive and still leave her time to pay it forward.
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- We’re already using AI more than we realize #shorts
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- 2 years ago
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- This video is sponsored by Microsoft Copilot for Microsoft 365. Microsoft has no editorial influence on our videos, but their support makes videos like these possible.
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A longer version of this video is on our channel — it dives deeper into the gap in awareness about the prevalence of artificial intelligence in everyday technologies.
We're living through an inflection point for artificial intelligence: From generated images and video to advanced personal assistants, a new frontier of technologies promises to fundamentally change how we live, work, and play. And yet for all the buzz and concerns about how AI will change the world, in many ways, it already has.
From spam filters and sentence suggestions in our email inboxes to voice assistants and fitness tracking built into our phones, countless machine learning tools have q...
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- How giant lasers could get rid of space trash
- Date posted
- 2 years ago
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- Space debris is a huge problem, but we can fix it.
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Humans are filling the space around Earth with trash. Most of this junk comes from abandoned satellites, discarded jet engines, and other mission-related debris. And when these objects unintentionally collide, they explode into thousands of debris fragments that can seriously damage operational spacecraft. With a booming commercial space industry that has put an unprecedented number of new satellites in space in just the past few years, our space debris problem is only getting worse.
Scientists worry about a situation called the “Kessler syndrome,” coined in the 1970s, where a runaway chain reaction of collisions and fragmentation results in a cloud of debris around Earth so dense that it threatens future space missions.
But there are a few options to begin clearing out the debris surrounding us, most of them united in a strategy of...
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- We’re already using AI more than we realize
- Date posted
- 2 years ago
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- How artificial intelligence hides in plain sight.
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We're living through an inflection point for artificial intelligence: From generated images and video to advanced personal assistants, a new frontier of technologies promises to fundamentally change how we live, work, and play. And yet for all the buzz and concerns about how AI will change the world, in many ways, it already has.
From spam filters and sentence suggestions in our email inboxes to voice assistants and fitness tracking built into our phones, countless machine learning tools have quietly weaved their way into our everyday lives. But when we're surveyed about which everyday technologies use artificia...
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- How AI creates weather forecasts #shorts
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- 2 years ago
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- This video is sponsored by Microsoft Copilot for Microsoft 365. Microsoft has no editorial influence on our videos, but their support makes videos like these possible.
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A longer version of this video is on our channel -- it goes into more depth about the AI revolution happening in meteorology.
We’ve learned how to predict weather over the past century by understanding the science that governs Earth’s atmosphere and harnessing enough computing power to generate global forecasts. But in just the past three years, AI models from companies like Google, Huawei, and Nvidia that use historical weather data have been releasing forecasts rivaling those created through traditional forecasting methods.
This video explains the promise and challenges of these new models built on artificial intelligence rather than numerical forecasting...
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- Can AI help us predict extreme weather?
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- 2 years ago
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- AI models are starting to revolutionize weather forecasting.
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We’ve learned how to predict weather over the past century by understanding the science that governs Earth’s atmosphere and harnessing enough computing power to generate global forecasts. But in just the past three years, AI models from companies like Google, Huawei, and Nvidia that use historical weather data have been releasing forecasts rivaling those created through traditional forecasting methods.
This video explains the promise and challenges of these new models built on artificial intelligence rather than numerical forecasting, particularly as it relates to the ability to foresee extreme we...
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- The evolution of the movie backdrop
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- 2 years ago
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- This video is sponsored by Microsoft Copilot for Microsoft 365. Microsoft has no editorial influence on our videos, but their support makes videos like these possible.
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When I look at movies from the ’20s to the ’90s, I’m blown away by the worlds that filmmakers were able to create with their visuals. From Mary Poppins to Ben-Hur to Star Wars, they truly made things that people had never seen before — all with little to no help from computers.
How did they pull off such striking and novel visuals? Well, often, it was just with a paintbrush and some glass.
With a technique called matte painting, skilled artists would paint a scene and black out a portion of the frame for live-action photography. The actors would be filmed on footage that blacked out the painted backdrop,, and then filmmakers would combine the two exposur...
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- UV light kills viruses. Why isn't it everywhere?
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- 2 years ago
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- The promise and pitfalls of using light to stop germs.
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When you think of disinfecting a space, what comes to mind? Wipes? Gels? Sprays? Maybe air purifiers or effective HVAC systems? All of these are great defenses against viruses and bacteria, but one thing has been missing from the toolkit despite our knowing about it for over a century: light.
Ultraviolet light is an incredibly powerful disinfectant. Study after study has proven that it can obliterate viruses and bacteria, and yet it’s not often thought about as a defense against germs. In fact, when most people think of UV, they think of the harmful rays from the sun that cause cancer — not the PR you want when advertising, obviously. Luckily, a few years after the pandemic lockdowns, researchers have found a type of UV that isn’t strong enough to penetrate human skin but still effectively stops the germs. Could it be our next defense? Chec...
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- The evolution of the movie backdrop
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- 2 years ago
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- Matte paintings have transformed movies for over a hundred years. AI could be the next step in making them.
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When I look at movies from the ’20s to the ’90s, I’m blown away by the worlds that filmmakers were able to create with their visuals. From Mary Poppins to Ben-Hur to Star Wars, they truly made things that people had never seen before — all with little to no help from computers.
How did they pull off such striking and novel visuals? Well, often, it was just with a paintbrush and some glass.
With a technique called matte painting, skilled artists would paint a scene and black out a portion of the frame for live-action photography. The actors would be filmed on footage that blacked out the painted b...
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- The best hand-colored photos of the 19th century came from Japan #shorts
- Date posted
- 2 years ago
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- How colorized photos helped introduce Japan to the world
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- How Houthi attacks in the Red Sea impact trade #shorts
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- 2 years ago
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- If you want to learn more about the Red Sea crisis, check out these articles below:
https://www.vox.com/world-politics/24010092/houthis-red-sea-shipping-yemen-israel-gaza
https://www.vox.com/world-politics/2024/1/12/24036205/yemen-houthis-us-airstrikes-red-sea-gaza
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- Where Mao’s famous suit actually came from #shorts
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- 2 years ago
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- Mao made the suit iconic, but its origin predates his rise.
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- Why we say “OK” #shorts
- Date posted
- 2 years ago
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- It started as a joke.
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- The tragic story of this famous meteorite
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- 2 years ago
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- And the boy who fought the museum that took everything from him.
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In 1897, American explorer Robert Peary returned from his latest Arctic expedition to Greenland with an enormous iron meteorite, which he had taken from a small tribe of Greenlandic Inuit, the Inughuit. Also on board his ship were six Inughuit. Peary had convinced them to come with him to New York to be studied by the American Museum of Natural History in exchange for guns and tools. But soon after getting back to New York, Peary left on a promotional speaking tour. The six Inughuit never saw him again.
Within a few months of exposure to the warmer climate, four of the Inughuit — Qisuk, Nuktaq, Atangana, and Aviaq — had died of respiratory disease. And another, Uisaakasak, asked to return to Greenland on one of Peary’s ships. The only Inuk left was 9-year-old Minik, Qisuk’s son. The museum officials told Minik they buried his fa...
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- Why most images of Neptune are the wrong color #shorts
- Date posted
- 2 years ago
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- If you want to learn more about how scientists colorize space, Vox producer Coleman Lowndes has a great explainer on our channel:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WSG0MnmUsEY&t=253s
Here is a link to the University of Oxford study, which has some news about Uranus, too:
https://academic.oup.com/mnras/article/527/4/11521/7511973?login=false
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- How Michigan explains American politics
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- 2 years ago
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- How Republicans won Michigan, how they lost it, and what it all tells us.
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The “blue wall” once referred to a group of Northeast, Midwest, and West Coast states that, conventional wisdom said, “always vote for Democrats.” Unfortunately for Democrats, that was wrong, and in 2016 Donald Trump shockingly won three “blue wall” states — including, narrowly, the state of Michigan.
It maybe shouldn’t have been such a shock, though. All three of the “blue” states Trump won actually had a history of electing Republicans at the state level. Michigan in particular had been fully taken over since 2010 by Republicans, who then spent years gutting unions, restricting abortion, loosening environmental protections, and generally just turning a Republican policy wish list into law. So Trump winning Michigan was, in a way, just the culmination of a years-...
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- 2023, in 7 minutes
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- 2 years ago
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- The year’s already over? Let’s look back.
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2023 was dominated by a few big stories: climate change making everything hotter; the Israel-Hamas war; blockbuster movies and concert tours. And during all the massive global shifts, celebrations, and devastation — life happened. Watch this video to remember the major events from this turbulent year.
Read more about this year on Vox.com.
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- Why IBM is building next generation storage solutions. Advertiser content from IBM
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- 2 years ago
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- One inescapable aspect of modern life is that humans are constantly creating data. So as enterprise data booms, IBM Storage Flashsystem is empowering businesses by scaling them efficiently, by rethinking the way storage operates entirely.
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- What all Christmas movies have in common
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- 2 years ago
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- Listen: They’re all pulling from the same classic songs.
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‘Tis the season for sitting in front of the cozy glow of a Christmas movie. Don’t you just love the snow, the twinkling tree lights, and, of course, the charming sounds of festive music?
But not all Yuletide melodies are created equal.
In a 2015 analysis, FiveThirtyEight found that nine out of the top 10 most featured Christmas songs on movie soundtracks were in the public domain. Or in other words, Christmas movies are full of the classic songs we know and love — that also happen to be free from copyright and free from expensive licensing fees.
The reason why public domain Christmas songs are so popular may be obvious: Lower-budget films, like the ones our moms have grown to...
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- What your credit score actually means #shorts
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- 2 years ago
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- It’s not just you. Credit scores are confusing as hell.
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- What your credit score actually means
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- 2 years ago
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- It’s not just you. Credit scores are confusing as hell.
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When credit scores were invented just a few decades ago, they were hailed as a way to democratize lending. Today, they’ve become so essential that not having one can essentially lock you out of daily life. Having a low score can make life challenging, too.
These scores have a long history — and a lot of problems. In this video, we’ll show you where they came from, how they’ve changed over the years, and actually explain what that three-digit number means for you.
Sources and further reading:
Check out Frederick Wherry’s book, Credit Where It’s Due: Rethinking Financial Citizenship, which he co-authored with Kristin S. Seefeldt
Anthony S. Alvarez: https://www.rus...
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- AI can do your homework. Now what?
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- 2 years ago
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- We interviewed students and teachers on how schools should handle the rise of the chatbots.
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For a year now, students have had access to AI chatbots, otherwise known as Large Language Models, that can write at a high-school level and answer specific and diverse questions related to many school subjects. OpenAI's ChatGPT kicked off a race among tech companies to release their own chatbots and integrate them into existing consumer products.
The most advanced language models, like GPT-4 and Claude2 are kept behind paywalls. They offer more nuanced answers and make fewer mistakes but because reliability is not guaranteed, many businesses cannot yet deploy these systems. That means a significant portion of chatbot use cases are for low-stakes applications, like school work.
This presents a major challenge to educators, who now need to rethink their curriculum to either incorporate chatbot use...
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- Why Israel has so many Palestinian prisoners
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- 2 years ago
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- Inside Israel’s dual criminal justice system.
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Israel has been engaged in harrowing negotiations to recover the roughly 240 hostages held by Hamas and other militant groups in Gaza following the October 7 attack. In exchange for their release, the Israeli government has a bargaining chip that is extremely valuable to Palestinians: the thousands of Palestinian prisoners locked up in Israeli prisons.
Each one of these Palestinian prisoners has been processed by Israel’s military court system, which exists completely separate from the civilian court system that Jewish Israelis interact with. This system and the military orders that govern it have their origins in the Israeli occupation of the Palestinian territories in 1967.
In this video, two experts explain Israel’s military court system, why it’s been a focus of outcry from human rights organizations and why hostage negotiations ...
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- Why is it so hard to buy a house in the US? #shorts
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- 2 years ago
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- The homeowner vacancy rate is the lowest it’s ever been.
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- Why buying a house in the US is so hard right now
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- 2 years ago
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- We charted America’s homeownership problem.
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Homeownership in the US is basically synonymous with the idea of the American Dream. Owning your own home, the story goes, confers both self-determination and security — instead of paying a landlord, you own a growing asset that will form the base of your wealth. Homeownership is ingrained in US society; the majority of American adults are homeowners.
But somewhere along the line, something changed. Homeownership has been way less accessible to millennials and gen Z than it was to their parents, in part because of dwindling housing supply. But even within that generational disparity, 2023 was a uniquely bad year to try to become a new homeowner. Watch the video above to see exactly how bad, and why.
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- What's inside this crater in Madagascar?
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- 2 years ago
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- On satellite imagery, we spotted a village inside a strange crater in Madagascar. We set out to learn how it got there.
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Right in the center of the island nation of Madagascar there’s a strange, almost perfectly circular geological structure. It covers a bigger area than the city of Paris — and at first glance, it looks completely empty. But right in the center of that structure, there’s a single, isolated village: a few dozen houses, some fields of crops, and dirt roads stretching out in every direction.
When we first saw this village on Google Earth, its extreme remoteness fascinated us. Was the village full of people? How did they wind up there? And what did life look like in such a strange geography? To find out, we teamed up with a local team in Madagascar and fell down a rabbit hole of geology and mapping along the way. It’s a story of how continental shifts and volcanic geology came tog...
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- Why cheating is allowed on game shows
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- 2 years ago
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- A lot of today’s contests are edited and rigged. But it wasn’t always that way.
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Today’s game shows, whether they’re Mr. Beast on YouTube or Storage Wars on cable, often feature sensationalistic editing, recreations, and straight-up fixing. But it wasn’t always that way. As the above video shows, game shows in America have gone from unregulated, to a Federally regulated activity, and back to unregulated once again.
The Quiz Show scandals of the 1950s set in motion a new law that enforced rules for games of skill. But, as the above video shows, changing media consumption habits and expectations have made game shows a wild west once again.
Further Reading:
https://content.time.com/time/subscriber/article/0,33009,809056,00.html
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- The rise of Xi Jinping, explained
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- 2 years ago
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- How Xi Jinping became China's most powerful leader since Mao Zedong
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Xi Jinping, president of China and general secretary of the Chinese Communist Party since 2012, is one of the most powerful political figures in the world. By initiating an unprecedented third term as China’s leader in October, 2022, Xi has signaled that he may plan to remain in power for life – making him the first Chinese leader since Mao Zedong to hold unchecked power over the People’s Republic of China.
But Xi’s connection to Mao goes deeper than a shared outlook that emphasizes unifying the party around a single leader. When Xi was just a young boy, his family – who had held elite party status thanks to his father’s pivotal role in Mao's “Long March” in 1935 – was denounced d...
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- How bats carry deadly diseases without dying
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- 3 years ago
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- Bats don’t just host deadly diseases — they can tolerate them shockingly well.
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Bats get a bad rap in all forms of media — and it’s not entirely unwarranted. Whenever they hit the news, it’s typically paired with some deadly disease that they’ve somehow unleashed on humans: from Ebola to Hendra virus to Nipah virus to various coronaviruses such as SARS, MERS, and even Covid-19. Bats are just really good at hosting deadly diseases, so much so that researchers around the globe from Brazil to Australia to China are searching bat genomes for clues about the next potential outbreak.
But there’s another angle to consider.
Bats aren’t just very good at hosting deadly diseases. They seem to tolerate them very well. After all, we’re not finding...
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- Forgotten Transgender History of the Wild West #shorts
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- But what is gender affirming care #shorts
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- Gender affirming care isn’t just limited to trans people — here’s a bunch of gender affirming care things that cisgender people do too.
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- Something weird happens when you keep squeezing
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- 3 years ago
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- Under extreme pressures, matter defies the rules of physics as we know it.
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Physicists have a pretty good handle on how stuff behaves on the surface of the Earth. But a lot of matter in the universe exists outside this narrow band of relatively low temperatures and pressures. Inside planets and stars, the crushing force of gravity begins to overwhelm the electromagnetic and nuclear forces that keep atoms apart and maintain the shapes of molecules.
What happens next? Scientists (including a consortia of researchers at the NSF’s Center for Matter at Atomic Pressures) are just starting to figure that out. They use a variety of tools (including some humongous lasers) to simulate planetary cores and see what happens. A few standout findings so far:
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- The Hesitant Fiancée, explained in 60 seconds #shorts
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- 3 years ago
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- Who do you think she’s looking at? 👀
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- Sudan's conflict, explained #shorts
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- 3 years ago
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- Learn more at the linked video.
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- Your baby teeth probably fell out in this order #shorts
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- 3 years ago
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- It’s not random! Teeth emerge and fall out in this order, generally speaking.
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- Why everyone hates this concrete building
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- 3 years ago
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- And why brutalism dominates US college campuses.
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When you look at college campuses across the US, you’ll see massive concrete buildings everywhere. Many of these are designed in a style of architecture called "brutalism," and it's as divisive as it is distinctive.
Brutalist buildings strive for honesty and transparency in their form and materials. This often means using simple materials like raw untreated concrete as well as using bold geometry.
Its origins can be traced back to the architect Le Corbusier, who pioneered many of the concepts that would become popular amongst brutalist architects.
Brutalism found its way onto college campuses in the wake of World War II. With veterans returning from the war and a baby boom in the US, camp...
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- How China is designing flood-resistant cities #short
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- 3 years ago
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- These “sponge city” designs resist floods and increase biodiversity to help us adapt to a changing climate.
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- How The Conjuring became the Marvel of horror
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- 3 years ago
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- The Warrens' case files have helped create a shockingly successful horror universe.
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There are film franchises, and then there are shared universes.
Halloween, Scream, The Exorcist are all successful horror franchises. For the most part, they follow one continuous story. Their sequels, re-quels, and reboots all tend to center around the same villain we’ve known since the beginning.
But The Conjuring is different. Every new film pulls on threads from real-life hauntings , creating a wider universe — much like the Marvel Cinematic universe. Except instead of building out its roster of heroes, The Conjuring builds out a roster of villains.
The Conjurings universe is based on the case files of two of the most famous paranormal investigators...
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- Why this 13th-century song shows up everywhere #shorts
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- 3 years ago
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- Linked to our full video to learn more!
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- Gaza, explained
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- 3 years ago
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- Why Palestinians in Gaza have suffered for decades.
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On October 7, Hamas, a militant group based in the Gaza Strip, launched a deadly attack on Israel, killing over 1,400 Israelis and kidnapping over 200. In retaliation, Israeli airstrikes have killed, as of this video, over 6,400 Palestinians in Gaza, where Palestinians have lived for decades under an occupation and blockade.
Since 1967, Israel has imposed tight restrictions on travel and essential goods such as food, fuel, medicine, and water in its occupied territories. In 2007, those restrictions became even tighter in Gaza after Hamas seized power there. Since then, it has been nearly impossible for Palestinians to leave Gaza or to access an adequate supply of essential goods.
Today, the Gaza Strip, with a population of over 2 million Palestinians, is a victim of what many...
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- How China is designing flood-resistant cities
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- 3 years ago
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- These "sponge city" designs resist floods and increase biodiversity to help us adapt to a changing climate.
This episode is presented by Delta. Delta doesn’t have a say in our editorial decisions, but they make videos like this possible. For more information, visit http://www.delta.com/sustainability.
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From rising sea levels in Mumbai to unbearable heat in Houston, cities around the world are feeling the effects of climate change. Unfortunately, they don’t always have the right infrastructure to handle its impacts — which is one reason why cities are beginning to reimagine urban design. One of these designs is a “sponge city.”
Although one city design certainly won’t save us from the effects of climate change, “sponge cities” can help with how we live with it.
Here are some studies and articles we u...
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- Cow burps are a climate problem. Can seaweed help? #shorts
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- 3 years ago
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- Cows produce a ton of methane. Researchers think that tweaking their diet could help.
This short is part of a longer video!
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- The right way to kill a fish #shorts
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- 3 years ago
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- The most popular way to kill a fish isn’t great for the fish — or our taste buds. This short is part of a longer video!
